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?Lowell Backs
Article Ten in
.Modified Form
e_.
getter to Senator Walsh
* Urges Indorsement by
* Upper House Democrats
* of Treaty Reservations
$eal Power in Part 16
Causes for War Seen in Dis?
puted Clause; World Calls
for Early Ratification
New York Tribun?
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.?Democratic
Senitors were urged to support res?
ervations to Article X of the league o?
jjtions covenant in a letter received
to-day by Senator Walsh, Democrat, oi
Massachusetts. from A. Lawrence
lowell, president of Harvard Univer?
sity.
In placing the letter in the Recorc
$enator Walsh, who voted for th(
Lodge reservations, said:
< "From this letter it would seem thai
this able and distinguished champior
of the league plan, who many peopl?
believed regarded Article X as th<
nost important and, indeed, the one in
dispensable feature o? the plan, doei
not object to the reservations whicl
the Senate has adopted.
1 "Considering how pronounced an ad
rotate cf the ieague President Lowel
is. it is a most important and illumi
nating contribution to the discussioi
on this subject to have him now de
eure'that Article X is not well adaptei
to promote peace and does involve obli
g?tions which it is not wise to accept
Many of us who have for some tim
?een making this claim are strength
ened and heartened in our conviction
by the position now taken by this lead
ing convenanter and accepted author
ity on American government."
Letter From Dr. Lowell
Dr. Lowell's letter follows:
"As one of the stumbling blocks i
the way of a compromise on the treat
appears to be Article X, I take the lib
erty of writing to you about it, th
?ore so as I was the person who intrc
duced into the program of the Leagu
o? Enforce Peace the third article, d{
faring that the 'signatory powei
shall jointly use forthwith both thei
etonomic and military forces again!
any one of their number that goes t
-?rar or commits acts of hostility again;
another of the signatories before an
question arising shall be submitted 1
arbitration.'
<. "I say this to show you that fro:
the beginning I was in favor and a
ways have been in favor of the use <
? forcible sanction to maintain peai
under the league. For this purpose
seems to me that the real strengt
of the covenant to prevent war res
?pon Article XVI and not Article :
The latter seems to me to procei
from the wrong end. Instead of see
ing to prevent war directly it striv
to do so indirectly by. making pred
tory war unprofitable; but the dif
culty in thi3 lies in the fact that
would be virtually impossible
snatch the prey from the jaws of
victorious belligerent. Nor would
grttt nation, like Germany, for e:
ample, be deterred from going to w?
by any agreemen^among the membe
of the league to prevent her annexii
territory m case of victory, becau
she knows very well that if defeati
she will have no chance to seize ten
tory, and if victorious she would n
be prevented from doing so.
Fear Shown Over Results
"Moreover, as the treaty of pea
leaves Europe, there are cases whe
?Article X would lead to mischevoua i
suits. For example, a tract of count
in the Tyrol, inhabited exclusively
German-speaking people, has been gi\
to Italy. If German-Austria shot
have a grievance against Italy?let
say about the treatment of shipping
and should bring it before the council
the league and have a unanimous dc
lion in her favor, with which Italy
fused to ( omply, she would have a rij
to go io wal with Italy. If in this v
she were uctorious, and then sho'
firopese to take back this- Germi
speaking region, we would be obli|
by Article X of the covenant to go
war with her to prevent it. Neither
nor any other nation would do so, i
ought we to do so.
"It seems to me, therefore, tl
Article X is not well adapted to p
note peace and does involve obli)
tions which it is not wise to acce
i say this, because many of the Den
crats I know feel that the whole fo
at the back of the league lies
Article X, and Senator Hitchcock 1
?aid this to me.
"I think, however, they are mistak
The real strength in preventing v
lies in Article XVI, and the agr
nent to boycott as it stands, if not
strong as we should have liked, see
to me not inadequate; for such a b
toti would be completely effective w
* 'mall nation, and with a great poi
it would immediately lead to war. 1
?"?Me reasons it seems to me that
*ould be a mistake for the Democr
to stand too firmly against a reser
l|on on Article X."
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9. -Pim
?m Lowell of Harvard, when asked
"ay about his letter to Senator Wa
ont*? peace fvaty, said:
The advice contained in the soi
*hat personal letter to Senator Wb
?as not that Article X should
'?ncken out of the treaty, but t
?jere were objections, to it of sue
th*r?cter that 'it would seem to b
*'-*take for the Democrats to stand
-rnuy against a reservation on Art
,. nave never changed my attiti
,lf?? that the treaty should
??ined with auch reservations as
rtSS**** to secure the required t
t&'rda rote.
'<*!? ^"'Ponernent would be most
?wtunat?, because the result of
*i? fU*' *lection cannot be a
t???**'? o? opinion on what resei
??Jfj .*ny' the People want; for
??Tl*1;* who declares for ratifica
'ion -u*ty witn ar)y Kr;l oi rc,,c
L' ? obtain the vote? of th^ m
,?* ?/ ni* party who desire ratil
^ ?t all, the jrreat bulk of the I
UU., *2ft*c ''-?i" more about ratifica
32Lr*?tth? Particular r??ervat
'?? hls'' >>"'"?<- delay most
'rlii* iU* b?c*u?e until the treat
???4 wrest, whethei in Kurop?
w*J2 coor>try. cannot subside,
dit?on a*!?"''1 return "' 8 normal
adiai?.- til4i Problems ui peaceful
?W??t?nent cannot be solved."
""" ?' ???? ?? i.'. ????
Convicted 0 of Murder
Q*H Sun* Wan Found Gu
<*u Killing ?n Washing
<*? ?m. ;',,J,") ?oHty "? mar??
! tfrT-r ?*w K4ocatlonal Mis
<Mc ii ?, '"*? *"*'* ot th? <("*''
?lawf," """?>? w.:;.: killed at the ?
t?fe**? out only a half \
; ml?? ??<iet was innounced
j """?? ?r t*o marshals.
Woman Talks to Democrats
-?mmmm?*?
The above photograph shows Mrs. Peter Oleson, the only woman speaker
at the Jackson Day dinner.
Palmer Asks Jerseyites
T? Ratify Suffrage
Attorney General Sends Letter
to Democratic Assemblymen,
Urging Amendment Aid
A.Mitchell Palmer,Attorney General
of the United States, has written a
letter to each of the twelve Democratic
Assemblymen from New Jersey urging
;hem to use their influence to havi.
the woman suffrage amendment rati?
fied by the legislature which convenes,
next week. James R. Nugent on
Wednesday refused the request of Ho?
mer S. Cummings, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,/to as?
sist in the ratification by using his in?
fluence with the Essex County delega
? tion. Mr. Palmer wrote as follows:
"Both the great national parties have
I indorsed the ratification of the woman
i suffrage amendment and most of the
j leading nations of the world have
already secured this measure of justice
: to their women. We do aot want to
see America lag behind in this forward
movement.
, ; "In view of the present unrest, with
which, as Attorney General, I have
come in close contact, I feel that it is
highly important that every possible
influence be used to stabilize our insti
I tutions and prevent unrest. I am con
? vinced that the immediate extension
of suffrage to our women will be a
most important force in this direction.
"I earnestly urge your early, favor?
able action on the ratification reso
I lution."
Courtesy of Legislators
| Amazes Woman Member
Miss Marguerite Smitn, Once
! Baseball Catcher, Doesn't Mind,
She Says, if Books Are Thrown
Miss Marguerite Smith, twenty-five
? year-old instructor in physical culture
at Horace Mann School, who took her
'? seat in the Assembly for the 19th Dis?
trict a week ago, addressed 1,000 mem?
bers of the Girls' Service League at
I Hunter College last night.
She said that' the courtesy of her
1 fellow members of the Assembly was
j amazing. Being a new member, she
had drawn a seat in the front row, and
one of the older members, she said,
had gone out of his way to warn her
j that she wouldn't like it because later
I in the session everybody threw books
j and things at the Speaker ,and she
! might be hit.
1 I told him I used to catch on a
j baseball team and wouldn't mind a
! bit." Miss Smith said.
She explained her reason for voting
| for the suspension o? the five Social?
ist Assemblymen, saying that the ac
? tion was only temporary, that the men
i would have a fair trial and would hold
i their scat-i unless it was shown th'-y
held political beliefs which consti
? tuted a violation of their oath of office.
, Miss Smith is a Republican.
?Police Find Man in Cellar
After Six Shots Fired at Wife
After firing six shots Ihrough a door
; at his wife, Arthur Leah, 157 West
: 100th Street, accord in? to the police,
yesterday hid himself in a neighbor's
cellar, where he was found by a crowd
attracted by the shooting. None of the
shots took effect. Leah was charged
with felonious assault.
Leah had been separated from his
v/jfe and had been ordered by the
i Court of Domestic Relations to live
I apart from her. According to the
police, he knocked at her door yester?
day. When she refused to admit him
he began to shoot. Before ho was
found cowering in the caller n ha!/
I dozen policemen patrolled the block to
prerent his escape.
Would Disband N. J. Militia
TRENTON, N. J-, Jan. 9, Adjutant
General Gilkyson issued a statement
' to-day suggesting that as the war
em?rgeney had passed the Stale Militia,
organized after the National Guard of
; New Jersey had been mustered Into
I Federal service, bo disbanded at once.
The m?llt?a was enlisted for a period
covering the duration of the war and a
I yeer afterward.
Baker Puts Armistice
Day Loss Up to Persliing
Declares House Committee
Should Hear Commander on
Charges of-Needless Killing
Net?" Yitrk Tnhun*
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan.-9.?Though de?
clining to comment specifically on the
j charges made by Brigadier General
j John H. Sherb-ourne that general head
I quarters of the American Expedition
I nry Force was responsible for a need?
less waste of life on Armistice Day,
I Secretary of War Baker to-day de
j clared that General Pershing should
i have an opportunity to be heard on
this point before- the House war in
! vestigating committee concludes its
work.
Mr. Baker said he had not read the
1 testimony given by General Sher
I bourne before the House committee
: yesterday and could, therefore, make
i no comjnent with particular reference
i to the charges.
-?
Budget for Indians Passed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The annual
Indian appropriation bill, carrying
$12,816,013, or $2,500,000 less than last
year, was passed to-day by the House.
. The appropriation of $75,000 for sup?
pression of liquor traffic among
Indians, eliminated by the House,
; finally was retained.
Party Pledged to
Check Socialism
By Will H. Hays
Republican National Chair?
man in Denver Speech
Makes Plea for "Square
Deal" to Capital and Labor
* Special Correspondence
DENVER, Jan. 9.?Chairman Will H.
Hays of the Republican National Com?
mittee in a speech here to-night as?
serted that the Republican party would
do all in its power to prevent the
spread of socialism in this country.
The banquet was attended by several
hundred Republican men and women,
and followed conferences held with Re?
publican leaders of the mountain states
and a luncheon for the Colorado Re?
publican National Committee. Chair?
man Hays said in part:
"What does the Republican party
stand for? Well, it is up to you as
much as any part of the party mem?
bership to determine what the party
stands for; but I suggest that above
all things else the Republican party
stands first for the faithful, efficient
and honest administration of the busi?
ness of the country.
Will Check Socialism
"With all our power we will strive
to prevent the further spread of so?
cialism ,and set this nation's feet once
more firmly on the path of progress
and along ways which liberty and order
must ever guard and" preserve.
"To this end we have promised n
forward stepping, as well as forward
looking program for labor, for busi?
ness, for the farmer, and those prom?
isee we will keep.
"The Republiean party recognizes
that labor constitutes the country's
chief asset. In the crisis through
which we have passed the labor of the
country was its salvation.
"In the great readjustment business
must have sympathetic help, not an?
tagonistic curtailment. It must be
treated with an appreciation of its
fundamental importance, and not as
a demagogue's shuttlecock. The busi?
ness men of this country are entitled
to every consideration, including the
right to run their own business.
"It is simply a matter of Roosevelt's
'square deal'?exact justice for labor,
expect justice for capital and exact jus?
tice for the public, the third side of
the triangle which must not De lost
sight of.
"We trust the women voters of this
1 country to help the Republican party
| carry out its determination to require
I ihat the highest standards of health
be maintained and enforced; that there
is a proper compulsory school educa?
tion; that we have proper limitatioi:
in the hours of work for women in em?
ployment where standing is required
and that there be an eight-hour ctay?
that there is a proper prohibition ol
child labor, and that there shall b(
adopted, as speedily as possible, every
practical principle which can furthei
humanize industry.
Live and Help Live
"The Republican party, guaranteed
by its past, underwritten by its present
will measure its future steps forwart
by the new needs of the nation.
"Mere agitation and mere motion art
not progress. The vicious circle is noi
the shortest distance between honesf
effort and highest reward. Remembei
that one man is only better than an
other when he does better. Give everj
well behaved man and woman theii
equality of opportunity and requin
from them their full measure of ac
countability.
"Live.and let live is not enough?wi
must live and help live?and as yoi
live and help live find exact justice an<
enforce it."
?
Hoover Refuses to Talk
On Political Outlool
Attends Meeting That Approve
Immediate Relief Program
for Children in Europe
Herbert Hoover was in New Yorl
City yesterday, but would not talk poli
tics. He sent word through his secre
tary that he had nat anything new 01
the subject. Mr. Hoover's old view
on politics are to have nothing to d
with it. When he returned from abroai
he said in an interview that he hadn'
mixed with politics enough to be a Re
publican or a Democrat.
Mr. Hoover attended a meeting of th
directors of the American Relief Ad
ministration of the European' Chil
dren's Fund yesterday at the adminis
tration's headquarters, Ho Broadway
He is expected to remain here thre
days, occupying himself with details o
administration of the relief work.
The program of the administratior
as approved yesterday, provides for th
immediate feeding of 1,300,000 childre
and the clothing of 800,000 children i
Poland alone. The feeding of 100,00
children in Austria and the clothing o
I 232,000 there also was approved. The
discussion hinged chiefly on the plans
for the erection of huge warehouses in
the principal war-stricken countries.
Through the establishment of the
distribution bases relatives and friends
of sufferers may aid them by sending
money drafts on the warehouses. Food
and clothing would be issued to those
designated by the person in this coun?
try. The warehouses will probably be
?situated in Warsaw, Prague, Vienna and
I Budapest.
Senator Moses to Open
Headquarters for Wood
National Capital Surprised at
Retirement From Campaign
of John T. King
New York Tribun?
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9?National po?
litical headquarters for the Major Gen?
eral Leonard Wood campaign for Pres?
ident will be opened here next week
by Senator George H. Moses, of New
Hampshire, General Wood's native
state.
This is the first step of the Wood
forces toward reorganization as a re?
sult of the retirement from leadership
of John T. K?ig, National Committee
man for Connecticut. William Cooper
Procter, the Cincinnati soap manufac?
turer, will remain at the head of the
Wood Club League movement and di?
rect the work from the headquarters
established recently in New York.
Before the end of January the Wood
backers expect to open state head?
quarters generally throughout the
country. The different state managers
will be intrusted with the organiza
1 tion work in their own districts and
j will be made solely responsible for re?
sults.
j Plans for a wide open campaign to
convert the Wood sentiment into con?
vention delegates will "be completed at
a meeting of the general's workers in
Chicago, probably late- next week. The
conference will be a' follow-up of the
one held Monday and Tuesday of this
week in connection with the Repub?
lican gathering in the Windy City.
The retirement of Mr. King from the
managership of the* Wood campaign
was a big surprise to the national
capital, although it was known here
that many of the general's friends were
becoming disssatisfied with Mr. King'B
methods. It is understood that Mr.
King retired because he was unable to
get from General Wood authority to
take sole charge of the campaign.
?
275,000 Army Indorsed
By Senate Committee
Provisions for Forces in Europe
and Siberia; Pershing May
Be Staff Chief
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.?Favorable
action was ordered to-day by the Sen?
ate Military Committee on the War
Department bill authorizing an army
of 275,000 men for the current fiscal
year in order to provide for the forces
in Europe and Siberia.
The army reorganization bill as
drafted by a sub-committee was re?
ported to the full committee contain?
ing a section designed, members said,
to bring about'the appointment of Gen?
eral Pershing as chief of. staff. Some
committee members expressed doubt as
to the power of Congress to designate
the chief of staff, heretofore a Presi?
dential appointment, but the sub?
committee decided to insert the pro?
vision. *
As drawn, the sub-committee bill
provides for a single army structure
with regular, National Guard anc
citizens' army sections and a universa
military training system. The r?gulai
army would have a strength of 280,00(
men and 18,000 officers,
i Assistant Secretary Crowell, of the
War Department, explained to the
House Military Committee his plan foi
reorganization of the department sc
as to group the industrial establish?
ment, including procurement of muni?
tions and supplies, with an untlei
secretary in direct charge. The present
office of assistant secretary he char?
acterized as "unimportant" and recom?
mended its abolition.
Congress was asked by Secretary
Bakerto authorize expenditure by the
War Department of $12,000,000 in
building an ammunition and ordnance
storage depot in the vicinity of Ogden
Utah.
Eleven Negroes, Sentenced
To Die, Reprieved by Court
IJTTLF. ROCK, Ark., Jan. ?). - Stays ol
execution for eleven negroes under death
sentences for murders alleged to have
been committed during the recent negro
insurrection in Phillips County, Ark.
were issued by the Arkansas Supreme
Court to-day following the filing of ap?
peals from the lower courts' decisions
The stays defer the executions in?
definitely. Should the Supreme Court
affirm the death sentences new execu?
tion dates would be fixed in a proclama?
tion issued by the Governor.
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?Wood Here To-day;
Belief Is He Will
Quit Service Soon
Friends Want General to1
Devote Time to Cam?
paign, Management of
Which King Has Given Up
General Leonard Wood, who seems
! to be leading in the race for the Re
i publican nomination for President, is
coming to New York to-day to confer
with prominent Republicans concern?
ing the management of his canvass.
The retirement of John T. King, of
Bridgeport, who has taken the lead
in organizing Wood sentiment and
working among prospective delegates,
has for the time being somewhat dis?
organized the Wood lines.
Among other things to be considered
while General Wood is in town is
| whether he will yield to the demanc
! of many of his friends that he retin
from the army in order to give hii
time and personal attention to hi:
boom for President. Still anothe
matter is the strengthening of th<
hands of Colonel W. C. Procter, presi
dent of the Leonard Wood League
whose unfamiliarity with organizatio
politics causes uneasiness on the par
of the Wood men. The Washingto
I Wood headquarters is in charge o
! Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, an
j the situation at the national, capi?
seems to be well in hand.
General Wood himself has been keel
ing track of things at the headquartei
in Chicago, where he is stationed t
chief of the central department of tl
army. With Mr. King out of the ski
mish line, the Wood men are withoi
I an experienced delegate hunter in tl
field as a whole.
As stated in the Washington di
patches in The Tribune, General Wo<
had intended to remain in the arn
until about the first week in Marc
that being the period when delegat
begin to be chosen for the nation
] convention. The resignation of IV
, King and the desire of the Wood m
in the Middle West to speed up t
| work may bring about the genera
( retirement from the army much earl:
than he had intended.
| It is expected that while he is
New York this time he will confer w
Charles M. Schwab, Dan R. Hanna,
Cleveland; George W. Perkins, Colo
( Procter, Senator Moses, Frank
' Hitchcock, former chairman of the ]
publican National Committee; A.
, ! Hert, of Louisville; Colonel Theod
' j Roosevelt and various other New Y
j Republicans. It is likely also that
j will have a talk with Mr. King, whc
I planning to take a prolonged vacat
> beginning next week. Mr. King
turned yesterday noon from Chicago.
He was uncommunicative.
Harding Delegates
Front Ohio Named
Special Correspondence
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 9.?Ohio's
"big four" to the Republican National
Convention, all pledged to the nomina?
tion of Senator Warren G. Harding,
of Ohio, for President, were selected
to-day. They are former Governor M.
H. Herrick, of Cleveland; former Gov?
ernor Frank B. Willis, of Delaware;
former Republican State Chairman H.
M.* Dougherty, of Columbus, ?ho U
managing Hardis?*? campain. and
N. H. Fairbank?, of Yorto^eid;
brother of the former Vlee-President!
chairman of the Bepublloan Sut?
Central Committee and prospective
candidate for the nomination for Gov?
ernor.
To Honor James K. Hyde
PARIS, Jen. 9r-James Hasen Hyde,
formerly of New York, but now a resi?
dent of Paris, will receive the degree
of Doctor of Lews from the University
of Rennes, according to a decision of
the faculty.
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